Power-transmitting mechanism.



A. PARSONS, A. O. CARNEGIE & S. S. COOK.

POWER TRANSMITTING MECHANISM.

APPLlCATION FILED MAY 3l. 1916.

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cHARLEs-ALGERNON Pensons.' ALFRED @munis sanmartin, aus COOK, OF WALLSENRENGLANE; SAID @ARN-EME' --tlt?` Sell* GWK .aSSur rownn-irnaitsuirrrrue Meenemen.

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i vTo all lwhom '15 may concern.' n A Be it known that we, CHARLES Ansmann Pensons, ALFRED QUm'rm Camarena, and

STANLEY SMITH COOK, all subjects of the 5 King of Great Britain and Ireland, and all `residing at Turbinia Works, Wallsend-on- Tyne, 1n the county of Northumberland, England, have invented a certain new and useful PoWer-Transmitting Mechanism, of

10 which the following is a specification.

, The present invention` relates to marine geared turbine installations and relates more `particularly to an improved arrangement 4of gear Wheel casing and 'propeller thrust V15 block such as is described in co-nending application Seria-l No. 25582 iilecl -li/lay 3rd, 1915. f v

Referring to ingszy Figure 1 shows one mode of carrying the present invention into eect in lwhich the ahead and astern thrust bearings are ar.- y ranged in proximit 'and upon the ahead the accompanying vdrawside of the gear W eel and in whichV two 2e thrust collars are'provided upon the spindle.

Fig. 2 shows a modiedconstruction in which a singlethrustA collar employed and the `ahead andI astern thrust ylaearirujs are located on thev astern side Aof 'the gear Fig. Sis a partcross section of Fig.' '2.

Fig.. howsjdiagrammatieally a general arrangement of partei-I, y

" [Incarrying this invention into effect acl''eordingto one formfand as shown in Fig.

1, the body of the mainge'ar Wheel web. which is }greerahlyoir the double helical ypa istinthegorin of a cylinder with a spindlefc passino through it and projecting e0 at each end. Tiiese. projecting portions al e are. supported in journal bearmgsg in the ends ofthe gear case h on winch are formed feet j (as shown in Figs. 3 and. d), for attachment to the ships bottom. The

'e5 upper part of the casing is conveniently Y, formed as a detachable cap or hood it se- '.50 lower rtion im `sides o thefcasingcover le.

of the'snndle kc two ythrust co Iarrange the ahead and astern thrust hearings placed between them and hacking upon a single housing g The thrust bearings are composed of pivoted pressure blocks u .'vhich hear the collars o o and are adapted to roch upon the housing g, the rocking being provided for by furnishing the pressure hloclis with spherical hacks which hear against plane faces upon the housing Q'.

The pivoted blocks may he supported in any suitable manner upon the housing so longxas they can freely roclq and they may be of the symmetrically supported 'type as described in the British Patents ci 1912 and 29810 of .1912, or they nxay' he oir" the casiner is attached to the shins struc* e ture, and through I which the 'propeller thrust is transmitted to the ship.

ln. all the forms described it will he ohservcd that the nropuisive thrust strains tending,- to move the gicar wheel and spindle o axially are taken directly on to the box structure and 'troni there transmitted to the ships training; by Way oi? the feet By the constructions employed it will he Seen further that a .single seating upon the sliips framing; serves te si'igiport the entire unit comprisingthe gear Wheel casina' and thrust bearing and to transmit the oropeller 'thrust to the ships structure, so t. at these constructions permit of considerable reduction of Weight, space and cost. rlhe confipactness arising from the new constructions and the simplification out ohtainingalinenient in erectingr is illustrated in llig. l in which ff represents a propeller, a turbine, c the pinion spindle and' c the wheel spindle et the turbine gear. These two spindles are supported in hearings in the gear case 7e.' and upon one side oi' .a o the thrust' device u is arranged.

ltwill he seen from this illustration how the newccnstructions ifacilitate the correct alineuient of the thrust device and transmis-3 Letters Patent is sion gear and. provide a, more compact errangement than has mtlrerto 'own prix@ 4tezrble when employing separate seatngs for the thrustneerlng and gear ense.

Having no. described our invention, what 'We claim :rs new and desire to secure by l. n combination in a geared ship Erf pulsion installation, a, wheel eoslng, feet upon said casing, bearings in said crasing, a shaft rotatably mounted in said bearings, a main Wheel mountecl on said ahead and estern thrust bearings in opera tive relation upon one side of said geur wheel, all said. parte being within said Wheel casing, said casing being attached by said feet to the slrps structurea ln combination in a, geared marine turbine installation es a single unit, a veer wheel casing', feet upon said casing', bearmgs rees-.ree

said easing, a, shaft rotatably mounted said bearings, .a mein gear Wheel mounted on sand shaft, urther bearmgs m sind eas-` lng, a second shaft rotatably mormtecl in sind bearrngs, a pmlon mounted upon sfndl second shaft and engaging said gear Wheel,` Y ahead and astern thrust bearings 111 opera-YV tive relation upon one siete of snd'wheel,

said thrust bearings acting to transmit pro# peller thrusts to said casing, alljsad 'parte being Within said gear Wheel easing, SaidA feet bemg adapted to support sand 'mutanti' transmit the Whole of said to the slups structureIn ALFRE) QUINTI' CARNEQW. STANLLESMITHUGOK.

propeller thrusts ln testlmony whereo, Wey have affixed 3 

